Larry Woiwode

Who is Larry Woiwode?

Larry Alfred Woiwode is an American writer who lives in North Dakota, where he has been the state's Poet Laureate since 1995. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Gentleman's Quarterly, The Partisan Review and The Paris Review. He is the author of five novels; two collections of short stories, a commentary titled "Acts," a biography of the Gold Seal founder and entrepreneur, Harold Schafer, Aristocrat of the West, a book of poetry, Even Tide; and reviews and essays and essay-reviews that have appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post Book World.

His first novel, What I'm Going to Do, I Think won acclaim, and received the William Faulkner Foundation Award for the best first novel; Beyond the Bedroom Wall sold over 1,000,000 copies, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.